Using Animated Films to Make Ocean Issues Come Alive for Kids

Meet award-winning filmmaker Brandon Strathmann, and see two of his films that focus on protecting the ocean. He will introduce the films and discuss ocean acidification and its impacts.

The Plastic Perils of the Pacific highlights the issue of plastic pollution in the ocean and how it affects the animals that live there. Dissolving Destinies, a 3D animated film, addresses ocean acidification and follows a crab through a coral reef. See the effects of ocean acidification, and learn more about how what we do on land affects what happens to the oceans.

Strathmann is an assistant professor of animation at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.

$5 for public; FREE for Aquarium members, teachers, and students with valid ID and advanced reservations.